Vertical Life is a climbing magazine in Australasia, available in both digital and print options. Here at Vertical Life we love climbing, be it beanied bouldering, clip-up sportclimbing, old-school daddy-tradding, big-wall suffering, alpine extremism, spandex-clad competition climbing, desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures buildering, the lot – if it involves monkey business we will cover it.

VERTICAL LIFE # 32

ON YOU, ON ME, ENNUI

STOCKISTS

GARIWERD WIMMERA RECONCILIATION NETWORK

DECLARATION CRAG UPDATE

ACAV COMMITTEE UPDATE

HILLWOOD CLIFF CLOSURE

BLUE MOUNTAINS FIRE DAMAGE

SQUEEZE PROBLEMS

CANBERRA FIRE DAMAGE

ACAC LEGAL UPDATE

CARDIOMG? • Not all End-of-Days scenarios present the same challenges and success in each variation demands its own training regime. You just gotta look at Zombieland, where Rule #1 is cardio, in The Virus lockdown the only zombies will be the doubts that haunt our minds and they cannot be simply outrun. Ergo, cardio should not be your priority numero uno.

THE ONLY OKAY FITSPO • SIMON MADDEN PAYS HOMAGE TO THE THE PERSIAN CHEETAH

THE CLIMBINGQTS • Beaziyt Worcou learning to lead trad belayed by Argo Theoharis at the 2019 ClimbingQTs Camp in Mount Arapiles / Dyurrite.

HIGH ON PHEROMONES • AFTER THE SMOKE CLEARS KAMIL SUSTIAK LOOKS AT HIS BACKYARD WITH FRESH EYES

ROXY PERRY • VL SPEAKS TO ROXY PERRY ABOUT GETTING TROLLED BY BAD PEOPLE

MOUNTAINS OF THE MIND, BY ROBERT MACFARLANE

BAFFLE DAYS

DOSAGE I, RELEASED 2001

RELATIVE SATISFACTION

MORE THAN JUST PRETTY SRTONG • WE SPEAK TO COLETTE MCINERNEY ABOUT PRETTY STRONG, AN ABOUT-TO-BE-RELEASED ALL-FEMALE CLIMBING FILM

PRETTY STRONG • Pretty Strong is an all-female climbing movie made by an all-female team of filmmakers called the Never Not Collective, led by Colette McInerney, pro climber and picture-taker.

WHERE DID ALL THE PSYCH GO? • SIMON MADDEN ON THE DARKNESS

MOVING MASS • SIMON YOUNG TAKES FLIGHT AND LETS A FLOWER BLOOM

THE I CHING LION READS YOUR DREAMS

WHAT WOULD ROSS DO?

WHEN I'M 64 • GERRY NARKOWICZ PROFILES BEN MADDISON

HASHISH • WE’RE PROFILING ONE AUSTRALIAN ROUTE AT THE GRADE THAT CORRESPONDS WITH THE ISSUE NUMBER (UNTIL WE RUN OUT OF GRADES). THIS ISSUE ROSS TAYLOR PROFILES HASHISH (32) AT THE UNDERWORLD IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.

TALES FROM THE Gringo Trail • RYAN SIACCI WANTS TO GIVE YOU THE ULTIMATE SOUTH AMERICA CLIMBING TRIP HOW-TO

RUNNING AWAY • DENBY WELLER ON BEING IN THE TROUGH

THE PLANT-BASED CLIMBER • AMANDA WATTS ON FORGOING ANIMAL PRODUCTS

ROAD CLOSED • CAMPBELL HARRISON ON THE POSTPONING OF THE OLYMPICS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR AUSTRALIAN ATHLETES

RISE UP & FIGHT • SEB PELLETTI CLIMBS A NEW ROUTE IN PATAGONIA

ART VS SCIENCE • DUNCAN BROWN ON GETTING SMART AND STAYING CREATIVE

ARC'TERYX PROTON LT HOODY

NEW GEAR

TED CAIS 1947-2019 • IAN THOMAS, RON FARMER AND MICHAEL MEADOWS REMEMBER TED CAIS

MICHAEL HILLAN 1956-2019 • PAUL BADENOCH REMEMBERS MICHAEL HILLAN

'BIG DAVE' BRAILEY LUCKY BEANIE